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So Channel 4 is moving its headquarters to Leeds – cue 200 Horseferry Road employees weeping into their flat whites.

But they needn’t worry. It might not be as big as London or as gobby as its northern rival Manchester, but Leeds regularly scores high in polls as one of the country’s best places to live based on cost of living, happiness and employment.

Although Leeds’ bid to be the European Capital of Culture 2023 has been dashed thanks to Brexit, the UK’s third-largest city is at the centre of the Government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ regeneration project.

I moved back to Leeds in 2010 after more than two decades of living and working in the capital. It’s a well-worn cliché that people are friendlier...

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